Example sentences of "[num] [noun] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses . |
| 2 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 3 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 4 | On 17 November it told Dista it thought it would be ‘ inappropriate ’ to publish the proposed data sheet change . |
| 5 | Running under X Windows it includes word processing , graphics , imaging , multiple background functions , view graphs , and on-line slide shows . |
| 6 | At one point it parodies Richardson , at another it seems to realize the ambition to compose a satirical work called The Marylandiad of Ebenezer Cook , the author of another of Barth 's proto-texts , the poem ‘ The Sot-Weed Factor ’ . |
| 7 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 8 | For one thing it overlooks God 's clear part in the extraordinary events that they witnessed the previous day . |
| 9 | In one year it won 6% of the market ! |
| 10 | As the ‘ five chapters ’ Elizabeth and Ivy had already seen it , and after one or two criticisms it had Ivy 's imprimatur . |
| 11 | Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’ |